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Parlando: Melodrama

Sunday | December 3, 2023 | 3 pm

PARLANDO DARIUS MILHAUD  –  Le Bœuf sur le toit KAJA SAARIAHO  –  Graal Théâtre      Geneva Lewis, Violin ERICH KORNGOLD  –  Much Ado about Nothing Suite What’s the relationship between music and the…

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The Writers’ Room: How the BMI Workshop Changed Broadway

Monday | December 4, 2023 | 7:30 pm

BROADWAY CLOSE UP The prestigious BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is renowned for fostering generations of musical theater writers who have transformed Broadway, but no year was more pivotal than 1997. Hear behind-the-scenes stories about what happened when this phenomenal group of writers…

(musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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New York Festival of Song: Gracias a la vida

Tuesday | December 5, 2023 | 8 pm

A musical tour of South America, with songs from Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The program features Ecuadorian tenor César Andrés Parreño and Bolivian soprano Shelén Hughes, with Steven Blier as pianist and host. Single tickets go on sale…

(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Jeremy Denk

Thursday | December 7, 2023 | 7:30 pm

PIANO DIALOGUES Jeremy Denk “is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs“ (The New York Times). The winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, he’ll perform music by Missy Mazzoli, Phyllis Chen and Fanny Mendelssohn. Denk has…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Nadia and Lili Boulanger & the Boulangerie

Monday | December 11, 2023 | 7:30 pm

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Maxim Lando Explore songs by Prix de Rome winning composer Lili Boulanger; her legendary sister, the French composer conductor and educator Nadia Boulanger, and Nadia’s incredible roster of students…

(vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Tuesday | December 12, 2023 | 2 pm

TUESDAY MATINEES SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR  –  Piano Trio in E minor ERNÖ DOHNÁNYI  –  Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 1 GIACOMO PUCCINI  –  Crisantemi for string quartet FLORENCE PRICE  –  Piano Quintet in A minor Hailed…

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Elia Cecino, piano

Tuesday | January 16, 2024 | 2 pm

TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Patrice Sciortino and Sergei Prokofiev Winner of the 2021 New Orleans International Piano Competition, pianist Elia Cecino won the first prize at the international competitions “James Mottram” in Manchester (England) and…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Angélica Negrón & Sophie Parker

Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 7:30 pm

ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by Angélica Negrón Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón writes “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative” (WQXR) music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys and electronics as well as for chamber…

(new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Vision Duo & Chromic Duo

Tuesday | January 23, 2024 | 7:30 pm

MUSICIANS ON THE RISE Reflections Vision Duo (violinist Ariel Horowitz and percussionist Britton-René Collins) and Chromic Duo (toy pianists and multi-media artists Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan) explore our experience of time in three musical chapters centering past, future and…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Magdalena Kuźma, soprano

Tuesday | February 6, 2024 | 2 pm

TUESDAY MATINEES Works by Tom Cipullo, Samuel Barber, Henri Duparc and Sergei Rachmaninoff Praised as being a “standout” with “star quality” by Opera News, Polish-American soprano Magdalena Kuźma is promptly establishing a name for herself in both concert and…

(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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The Living Earth Show: Music for Hard Times

Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 7:30 pm

ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by The Living Earth Show The Living Earth Show’s Travis Andrews and Andy Meyerson – “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle), “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) and “performers to watch” (The Washington Post) – give…

(new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Awadagin Pratt

Friday | February 16, 2024 | 7:30 pm

PIANO DIALOGUES Pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras. The winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and an Avery Fisher Prize, he’ll perform music by Franz Liszt, Pēteris…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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New York Festival of Song: All Together Now

Wednesday | February 21, 2024 | 8 pm

A collaboration with Young Concert Artists The program travels through six centuries of vocal ensembles, from the Renaissance to present day with music by Mozart, Chabrier, Libby Larsen, the Bobs and many others. Featuring tenor Daniel McGrew, mezzo-sopranos Megan Moore and Erin Wagner,…

(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Parlando: Transient Voices

Sunday | February 25, 2024 | 3 pm

PARLANDO AIDA SHIRAZI  –  Umbra DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH  –  Symphony No. 14      Irina Rindzuner, soprano      Mikhail Svetlov, bass-baritone How can music grab on to something as it slips away? Join Parlando as it explores how music captures…

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Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

Monday | February 26, 2024 | 7:30 pm

WHAT MAKES IT GREAT? Hosted by Rob Kapilow and featuring pianist Adam Golka Hear Mussorgsky’s most famous piece as it was originally written – for solo piano rather than the orchestral version most of us know – and see projections of some of the actual pictures that inspired the…

(classical, season-highlights)

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Ariel Lanyi, piano

Tuesday | March 5, 2024 | 7:30 pm

MUSICIANS ON THE RISE Frights, Fancies, and Fictions FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN  –  Mazurkas, Op. 59 LERA AUERBACH  –  Selection from Preludes, Op. 41 L.V. BEETHOVEN  –  Sonata in E Major, Op. 109 The acclaimed young pianist explores connections…

(classical, new-music, season-highlights)

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Time For Three

Thursday | March 7, 2024 | 7:30 pm

BRIDGES Defying convention and boundaries, Time For Three stands at the busy intersection of Americana, modern pop and classical music. To experience Time For Three live is to hear the various eras, styles and traditions of Western music fold in on themselves and emerge anew. Bonded by an…

(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Israel Fernández & Diego del Morao

Thursday | March 14, 2024 | 8 pm

Israel Fernández is one of the most celebrated flamenco performers of his generation. Renowned for infusing the traditional Spanish genre with his own unique personality and flair, Fernández has released five albums including Naranjas Sobre la Nieve, Con Hilo De Oro Fino, Universo…

(classical, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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New York Festival of Song: Eros and Co.

Tuesday | March 19, 2024 | 8 pm

Songs by Saint-Saëns, Granados, Serge Gainsbourg, Stephen Sondheim and many others refract the chaos and the delight of Cupid’s arrow. The cast features Caramoor's 2024 Schwab Vocal Rising Stars with Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois at the piano. Single tickets…

(classical, musical-theater, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano & Shawn Chang, piano

Thursday | March 21, 2024 | 7:30 pm

YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS Everything Must Change Songs by Franz Schubert, Stefania Turkewich, Viktor Ullman, Shawn Chang and more. "Despite society’s attempts to move forward from a past marked by violence and hatred, division and injustice continue to thwart us. We see this reflected in…

(classical, new-music, vocal-performance, season-highlights)

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